E.G. Squier

Ephraim George Squier (17 June 1821-17 April 1888) was an American archaeologist and newspaper editor.

Biography
Ephraim George Squier was born in Bethlehem, New York in 1821, and he became a journalist in Connecticut and Ohio during the 1840s. In 1848, he was a co-author of Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, which studied the prehistoric Mound Builders of North America. In 1849, he became charge d'affaires to all the Central American states, and, in 1853, he examined a line for a projected interoceanic railroad. That same year, he gave a speech to a few businessmen in California which supported expansionism and slavery as a means to avoid a civil war and preserve the American ways of life against the "barbarians". In 1863, he became US Commissioner to Peru, where he made an exhaustive investigation of the Inca remains. In 1868, he became the consul-general of Honduras at New York, and he was elected the first President of the Anthropological Institute of New York in 1871. He went on to conduct ethnological studies in Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, and elsewhere, and he died in Brooklyn in 1888.